- Brendan Eich
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name = Brendan Eich
birth_date = 1961
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occupation = CTO,Mozilla Corporation
nationality =Brendan Eich (born 1961) is a
computer programmer and creator of theJavaScript programming language . He is theChief Technology Officer at theMozilla Corporation .Education
Brendan Eich received his
bachelor's degree in math and computer science atSanta Clara University cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE4DE133BF93AA3575AC0A960958260&scp=1&sq=Brendan+Eich&st=nyt|title=Part Artist, Part Hacker And Full-Time Programmer|author=Steve Lohr|date=1996-09-09|publisher=New York Times ] . He received hismaster's degree in 1986 from theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign .Career
Eich started his career at
Silicon Graphics , working for seven years onoperating system and network code. He then worked for three years at MicroUnity Systems Engineering writing microkernel and DSP code, and doing the first MIPS R4000 port of gcc.Eich is best known for his work on Netscape and
Mozilla . He started work atNetscape Communications Corporation in April 1995, working onJavaScript (originally called Mocha, then called LiveScript) for theNetscape Navigator web browser . He then helped found mozilla.org in early 1998, serving as chief architect. When AOL shut down the Netscape browser unit in July 2003, Eich helped spin out the Mozilla Foundation.In August 2005, after serving as Lead Technologist and as a member of the Board of Directors of the
Mozilla Foundation , Brendan became CTO of the newly foundedMozilla Corporation .References
* [http://www.mozilla.org/events/dev-day-feb-2004/mozilla-futures/title.html Mozilla Futures: Analysis and Proposals] (Slides presented at Mozilla Developer Day on February 27, 2004; more detailed than the recent slides cited in roadmap blog)
* [http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_javascript.htm Brendan Eich and JavaScript] (about.com)External links
* [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/ Brendan's Roadmap Updates] (Mozilla roadmap weblog)
* Brendan Eich on the Gillmor Gang [http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail156.html July 2004] and [http://gillmorgang.podshow.com/?p=25 December 2005]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20000815055653/people.netscape.com/brendan/ Brendan's Netscape Joke Homepage]
* [http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;243672124;fp;4194304;fpid;1 Computerworld Interview with Brendan Eich on JavaScript]
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